rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) (02/12/91)
Any plan on adding socket stuff on MSDOS-perl ? With the availability of SLIP, PPP, KA9Q stuff, and packet drivers (source code too) ... this is a reasonable request :-) -- budi
lbr@holos0.uucp (Len Reed) (02/14/91)
In article <1991Feb12.040356.6839@ccu.umanitoba.ca> rahardj@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Budi Rahardjo) writes: >Any plan on adding socket stuff on MSDOS-perl ? >With the availability of SLIP, PPP, KA9Q stuff, and packet >drivers (source code too) ... this is a reasonable request :-) First of all, there's no official plan on MS-DOS at all. MS-DOS development has been done by folks other than Larry Wall and has been distributed by him. I did the last round of enhancements. The big problem with the DOS version right now is lack of memory. Adding features that support only a few users will use even more memory. I was working on a custom overlay scheme but I'm too busy right now to do anything on it. Sockets are at least second in priority: surely dbm is first. Larry hasn't released my perl source code yet. I'll e-mail the patches to anyone who's interested in doing work on MS-DOS perl. -- Len Reed Holos Software, Inc. Voice: (404) 496-1358 UUCP: ...!gatech!holos0!lbr